Wei-Feng Xue

School of Natural Sciences at the University of Kent, UK

Dr Wei-Feng Xue has a first degree in chemical engineering and a PhD in physical chemistry. He joined the School of Biosciences at the University of Kent in 2011, setting up a highly interdisciplinary laboratory focused on the fundamental molecular mechanisms of protein folding, assembly, interactions, and aggregation into amyloid and prions, as well as fundamental AFM software and technology development using combined theory and experimental approaches. Before moving to the University of Kent, Dr Wei-Feng Xue received his PhD degree in Physical Chemistry working on research regarding protein-protein, protein-ligand and allosteric interactions in Professor Sara Linse’s group at Lund University in Sweden in 2006. He then went on to become a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Professor Sheena Radford FRS at the Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology at the University of Leeds 2006-2011 on research topics concerning the mechanism and the biological impact of amyloid assembly. His current research interests include supramolecular protein assembly, protein folding and misfolding, amyloid and prions, and AFM imaging.